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WiseSenior Product Engineer II - Risk & Control Governance
Wise is seeking a Senior Product Engineer II to join the Risk & Control Governance team and Risk Assessment Group in London. This on-site role focuses…
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Wise is seeking a Senior Product Engineer II to join the Risk & Control Governance team and Risk Assessment Group in London. This on-site role focuses on developing governance, assurance, and data foundations to ensure every risk decision is explainable, auditable, and continuously monitored. The position collaborates closely with the Risk API platform, Product, and Financial Crime units. The role suits an experienced backend and data engineer who can build…
Job Description
Wise is seeking a Senior Product Engineer II to join the Risk & Control Governance team and Risk Assessment Group in London. This on-site role focuses on developing governance, assurance, and data foundations to ensure every risk decision is explainable, auditable, and continuously monitored. The position collaborates closely with the Risk API platform, Product, and Financial Crime units.
The role suits an experienced backend and data engineer who can build high-throughput systems and handle large volumes of data. Key initiatives include establishing data trustworthiness, designing continuous assurance and validation systems, and implementing end-to-end audit trails for regulatory compliance.
Responsibilities
- Build data quality monitoring systems, data contracts, and lineage tracking to provide full traceability from risk decisions to source data
- Design and construct automated monitoring systems that validate control effectiveness and detect drift, coverage gaps, or false positives and negatives
- Establish audit trail infrastructure and explainability tooling to simplify regulatory reporting and compliance evidence generation
- Collaborate with the Risk API team to embed governance and assurance capabilities directly into the core platform
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering background with experience building high-throughput, data-intensive systems in any language
- Hands-on expertise with Kafka, SQL, and NoSQL databases
- Experience with data quality frameworks, pipeline orchestration, or lineage tracking
- Ability to reason about complex distributed systems and design scalable, reliable solutions
- Capacity to operate autonomously under ambiguity and drive end-to-end delivery
Core Skills
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is the location and work arrangement for this role?
The position is based in London and is an on-site role.
What team will the successful candidate join?
The engineer will join the Risk & Control Governance team within the Risk Assessment Group.
What are the core technical skills required for this position?
Candidates need strong backend engineering experience in any language, hands-on knowledge of Kafka, SQL, and NoSQL databases, and familiarity with data engineering concepts such as lineage tracking and data quality frameworks.
What is the salary for this position?
The job posting does not specify a salary.
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